Friday's Assignment

TGIF (Thank God It's Friday)!

Today, we try to put our corrections based on the Editing Checklist into our blogs. If you need to review your work with your instructor, do take the opportunity this morning to go over your writing and editing for 10 minutes. Make sure to complete the amendments on your blog completely.

How does this relate to our theme of the week, a Healthy Lifestyle?

Here are your tasks on a healthy lifestyle:

1. Role Play: Walking or Running
2. Search for “Halloween” on this our class blog, read the posts, and comment on at least 2 posts.
3. Complete all edits on your blog using the Editing Checklist; then get 3 classmates to check before updating.
4. Wish your friends Happy Halloween on Facebook!

Thursday's Assignment

What bad habits could hurt your health?

Who's the person in the cartoon? What's so funny?What's not?

Here are your tasks:

1. Role Play with a Partner: Breaking Bad Habits
2. CLB6S: Role play a call to make an appointment with a dentist next Friday at 4 p.m. to talk about your daughter’s mouth breathing. Post the Vocaroo recording on your blog.
3. Post your comments on two other classmates' blogs.

Wednesday's Assignment

Good morning!

Here are your tasks:

1. Role play by yourself and then with a partner: Caring for Your Teeth
2. Record your role play with your partner on Vocaroo.com, and place it on your blog.
3. Learn the following vocabulary on Dental Care.
4. Sharpen your listening skills: Friendly Dental Care.
5. Write five sentences on what you learnt from the Employment Laws and Rights session yesterday. Publish them on your blog.

Tuesday's Assignment

Are you ready for a healthy lifestyle? How's your diet?

Here are your tasks:

1. Learn the vocabulary and make three sentences from this lesson: Shopping for Produce
2. Role play the following by yourself and then with a partner, and record the dialogue on Vocaroo.com: Unhealthy Food

Be ready for the information session in class with Carl on Employment (and Human) Rights, starting any time from 9:30 - 10:00 a.m.

Monday's Assignment

Welcome back! If you haven't spoken a word of English all weekend, that's all about to change.

Is this funny? What do you think is the theme for this week?

We're going to practise the following dialogues and then each find a partner to role play:

1. Role Play 1: Infatuated
2. Role Play 2: Teasing
3. Role Play 3: Your Looks

Be ready for the information session in class, starting any time from 9:30 - 10:00 a.m.

Friday's Assignment

Here are your tasks for this afternoon:

Who are those people in the picture?

1. Write your report of yesterday’s field trip or Wednesday's Student Vote.
2. Have 3 classmates check your work before posting.

Why so happy? Where are they going? Who's that on the extreme right?

Good morning! Hope you had a profitable time at yesterday's Small Business Forum!



Write down the three new words/phrases, and make sentences that bring out their meaning clearly. Read them aloud to a partner, focusing to make sure of correct pronunciation.

Here are your tasks for this morning:

1. Vocabulary building: Being an Entrepreneur
2. Watch this video and write down names and a sentence from three interviewees.
3. Role play on Vocaroo.com: Starting a Franchise Business

Thursday: Field Trip to Small Business Forum

Best wishes in your business startups, Diego, Ben, German, Yun, Hong, Jian, and Wu!

Check out more pictures on our class album!

Wednesday's Assignment

What are they pitching? Did they succeed? Check out this video!

Some people promote themselves to serve the city (or that's what they tell us), and others do so obviously to get rich. Today, we are checking out both kinds of people:

1. Watch the videos on the municipalities and school boards in Ontario. Find the list of candidates running in our Ward. Ask two partners who they will vote for in the Student Vote later this morning.
2. Watch Dragons’ Den/Shark Tank on streaming, taking good notes with this worksheet
1. Dragon’s Den-CBC
2. Shark Tank-ABC

Tuesday's Assignment

Do you think it's a good idea for a businessman not to have a business plan? What do you consider a good or a bad business plan? Share your ideas with a partner.


Here are your tasks:

1. Vocabulary building: Business Plan
2. Check out this resource and identify the 3 most important and the 3 least important sections of a business plan. Write your list down on your blog.
3. List 3 upcoming events by Enterprise Toronto, and update them on your Facebook status. Be sure to say why you might be interested in them.

Welcome Back! Here's Monday's Assignment

Woohoo! The one-week Thanksgiving Break is finally over! Did you have fun? We have a busy and exciting week ahead!



Guess what this week's theme is. Is it about healthcare? Education? Or what? Look for some clues on this post. Then take a guess, and tell a partner. So, here are your tasks:

1. Be sure to register for Thursday’s Field Trip right away.
2. Think of a business you could start. Read this webpage and discuss your thoughts with a partner.
3. Write 10 sentences on your blog about your dream business, and include some pictures.
4. Imagine that your dream business has been on for 3 months already. Introduce yourself and your business in less than 1 minute on vocaroo.com.

Friday`s Assignment

Today, to round up our week on the topic of celebrations, we take a look at something old and something new.

For more scary images, click here.

Here are your tasks:

Halloween 1517

1. First, something contemporary: role play with a partner this Halloween exercise on Scary Things.
2. Second, we go back in time to the Halloween of 1517, the greatest Halloween of all. Watch this Video (focus on 3:00 - 15:30): Why is it so important in history? Take good notes. Discuss your answers with a partner.
3. As we celebrate and give thanks to God for the freedoms in our new land of Canada, let us not forget those who are not so free in some other countries (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4). Write an email to a friend comparing Canada with another country, have two partners check it, and then post it on your blog.